Racial Equality Loses at the Court — A blinkered view of race in America won out in the Supreme Court on Tuesday when six justices agreed, for various reasons, to allow Michigan voters to ban race-conscious admissions policies in higher education. — In 2003, the court upheld such a policy …

An Orwellian dissent from a muddled ruling. — You might have heard that the Supreme Court ruled 6-2 today that states have the right to ban racial preferences, euphemistically known as “affirmative action,” in public-university admission, but that's not quite right.

Poll Shows Tight Senate Races in Four Southern States — Four Senate races in the South that will most likely determine control of Congress appear very close, with Republicans benefiting from more partisan intensity but a Democratic incumbent, once seen as highly vulnerable, holding a surprising edge …

Ted Cruz's Worst Nightmare Is Coming True — Obamacare is working. — Last August, as conservatives barnstormed the country seeking to build support for a cockamamie plan to shut down the U.S. federal government unless Congress voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Ted Cruz …

Landrieu: I'll put GOP foe on defensive on health care — Senator Mary Landrieu is one of the most vulnerable of red state Democratic incumbents, and her reelection challenges — like those of other red state Dems — are said to be all about Obamacare. — But in an interview today …

EXCLUSIVE—TEXAS AG ABBOTT TO BLM: ‘COME AND TAKE IT’ — After Breitbart Texas reported on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) intent to seize 90,000 acres belonging to Texas landholders along the Texas/Oklahoma line, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott questioned the BLM's authority to take such action.

The Revolt of the Cities — During the past 20 years, immigrants and young people have transformed the demographics of urban America. Now, they're transforming its politics and mapping the future of liberalism. — Pittsburgh is the perfect urban laboratory," says Bill Peduto, the city's new mayor. "

Amid Politics, Obama Drifted Away From Kin — BOSTON — After Zeituni Onyango, the woman President Obama once called Auntie, died in a South Boston nursing home this month, her closest relatives gathered her belongings at her nearby apartment. There, framed photographs of her with the president covered the wall.

Benghazi attack could have been prevented if US hadn't ‘switched sides in the War on Terror’ and allowed $500 MILLION of weapons to reach al-Qaeda militants, reveals damning report — Citizens Committee on Benghazi claims the US government allowed arms to flow to al-Qaeda-linked militants who opposed Muammar Gaddafi

Tom Steyer: I'm not the Koch brothers — Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer insisted Tuesday that he's not the left's version of the Koch brothers. — “That is not something I embrace. I think there are real distinctions between the Koch brothers and us,” Steyer said in an interview …

GOP poll defies tide on gay marriage — Two conservative groups are pushing back on moves by the GOP to drop opposition to same-sex marriage from party platforms, releasing a poll of base voters taken last month that found in favor of defining marriage “only” as between a man and a woman.

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